Elle Fanning

Born on April 9, 1998, in Conyers, GA, Fanning was raised in a family of conspicuous athletic talents. Her father Steve Fanning was a minor league baseball player in the St. Louis Cardinals farm system and her mother Joy was the daughter of NFL quarterback Rick Arrington and a onetime college tennis player. In 1999, the Fannings moved to Los Angeles to enable the talents of Elle's five-year-old sister Dakota, who was just starting her acting career. Her grandmother Mary-Jane joined the family in the Studio City home as the girls' home-schooling teacher, while the inroads her parents made with Dakota soon worked for the younger Fanning. In fact, big sister's coattails provided Fanning with he... Continue Bio >>